by Managing Editor | Dec 14, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Fight, Fight Featured Post, The Bible, Theology
Guest Post by Joost Nixon Last year on a rainy day near Kathmandu, a Nepali friend and I were on an evening errand for milk. We were tight-rope walking on top of walls because the rain had transformed the dirt roads into goo. Our route took us near a rare unplowed...
by Ben Zornes | Dec 11, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Fight, Fight Featured Post, Science, Theology
We knew it would only be a matter of time before this sort of thing becomes more common. A couple of women who identify as men have a child, which they have decided to not assign a gender to, and thus allow their child the freedom to “discover” itself. You can watch...
by Managing Editor | Dec 10, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Fight, Fight Featured Post, The Bible, Theology, Worldview
Guest Post by Jared Longshore Secularism is all in a tizzy. She is hot and pouty. She’s fired up and making her demands. She’s defying the armies of the living God, and she’s soft as cotton… which is not a good combo. God’s people have...
by Managing Editor | Dec 10, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Fight, Fight Featured Post, Theology, Worldview
Guest Post By C.R. Wiley A lot of ink has been spilled on the subject of fragility, particularly when it comes to young people—you know, safe-spaces, and coloring books on college campuses, and all of that. And while I could add my voice to the chorus, I think...
by Managing Editor | Dec 10, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Fight, Fight Featured Post, Theology, Worldview
By Jesse Sumpter You can’t make this stuff up. A 69 year old Dutch man, named Emile Ratelband, has decided he wants to identify as a 40 year old. He has even asked a court in his hometown to make it legal and change his birth certificate to say he was born on March...
by Managing Editor | Oct 22, 2018 | Blog, Fight, Fight Featured Post
Managing Editor: This voter guide was created by Daniel Foucachon. Here is his website. CrossPolitic’s interview with Bill Goesling can be found here. They also discuss Proposition 1 and Proposition 2. Preface Our opinion is that principles should come before...
by Managing Editor | Oct 4, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Fight, Fight Featured Post, Politics
By Jesse Sumpter A lot of people turned off Twitter and Facebook when the Kavanaugh hearings were going last Thursday. It was just too much for them to handle. People on social media were threatening each other. Death threats were tossed around like emojis. I’m sure...
by Managing Editor | Sep 24, 2018 | Blog, Fight, Fight Featured Post
Managing Editor: This is the text of an interview CrossPolitic did with Jonathan Merritt about his book Learning to Speak God from Scratch. The video of the interview can be found here. The text has been slightly edited for sake of smoothness and clarity. Otherwise,...
by Jason Farley | Jun 13, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Fight, Fight Featured Post, Jason Farley, Politics
I was recently sitting in on a lecture from a local university professor on the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. Whitworth University’s Dr. Van Inwegen explained that there are stories from history, “that help us understand the world we are in.” One of...
by George Grant | Jun 13, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, Current affairs, Fight, Fight Featured Post, George Grant, History, Politics, The Bible, Theology, Theology, Worldview
In his Confessions, Augustine (354-430) describes mankind’s universal sinful bent as “concupiscence.” The Greek word epithumia (ἐπιθυμία) occurs 38 times in the New Testament. It describes the utter enfeebling of mankind’s freedom of will through the bondage of sin....
by George Grant | May 26, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, Fight Featured Post, George Grant, History, Religion, Theology, Theology, Worldview
Haarlem is a beautiful little Dutch town on the River Spaarne, fifteen minutes by train from Amsterdam. Founded sometime in the 10th century, in 1245 it was granted city status or stadsrechten and was made the capital of the province of North Holland. By the 14th...
by Rhett Burns | May 3, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Fight Featured Post, Rhett Burns
By now the tragic story of Alfie Evans is well known. The English toddler with an undiagnosed neurodegenerative disorder died last week, five days after doctors extubated him and abandoned all treatment, except palliative care. A judge denied Alfie’s parents the right...
by George Grant | Apr 9, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, Current affairs, Fight Featured Post, George Grant, History
Every year new words and phrases find their way into our vocabulary. Sometimes these neologisms are the result of political turns of events, like Brexit, alt-right, or newsjacking. Sometimes it is technology and digital media that introduce new words like hashtag,...
by Jason Farley | Feb 23, 2018 | Abortion, Blog, Culture, Fight Featured Post, Jason Farley
I love basketball. In particular, I love the NBA. I watch a game multiple times a week. And every February they do a passably good job of celebrating Black History Month. I do not have a problem with black history month itself, but I have begun to wonder about one of...
by Toby Sumpter | Feb 17, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Fight, Fight Featured Post, Politics, Toby Sumpter, Uncategorized
As you have no doubt heard, there’s been another school shooting, and seventeen people are dead. An evil man took lives he had no right to take. His actions were full of hate and spite. These were human beings made in the image of God, most of them young people, lives...
by George Grant | Feb 5, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, Fight, Fight Featured Post, George Grant, Politics, Religion, Theology, Theology, Worldview
It is one of the great ironies of our day that Christians can pray, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven,” and not actually mean anything by it. Indeed, it is a stunning paradox that we can live as if such a prayer could not be answered. Even worse, we can...
by Rhett Burns | Jan 24, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Fight, Fight Featured Post, Politics, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
It has been two weeks since President Donald Trump allegedly referred to Haiti and some African nations as “s***hole countries” in a meeting with congressional officials discussing immigration policy. In the wake of these comments, his detractors offered their...
by George Grant | Jan 13, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, Fight Featured Post, George Grant, Science, Science, Worldview
Watkins’ Bookshop in Cecil Court, just off Charing Cross between Leicester Square and Covent Garden in London, was established in 1891 by John Watkins, and is still London’s premier occult bookstore. One of its most famous customers was Carl Gustav Jung, who, together...
by Toby Sumpter | Jan 4, 2018 | Blog, Fight Featured Post, Toby Sumpter
Look, I know it’s easy to criticize prominent men. I know it’s easy to point fingers, to blame, to accuse, to read the worst into what people say. I get that. It’s hard to be put on the spot, under the spotlight, and, given that, we really should be...
by George Grant | Dec 18, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Fight Featured Post, George Grant, History
Humbug is an old word of indeterminate etymology meaning “spectacle” or “hoax” or “jest,” often referring to some unjustified reputation or publicity. Of course, the word is most often associated with Ebenezer Scrooge, a character created by Charles Dickens in The...
by Luke Dickson | Dec 11, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Fight, Fight Featured Post, Politics
The estate tax (or death tax, or silver spoon tax, depending on who you ask) is the state’s attempt to redistribute the money of the wealthiest families in America. In recent months, it has seen support from Bernie Sanders, and has been sharply criticized by President...
by Rhett Burns | Oct 13, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Fight Featured Post, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was outed as a sexual predator last week in a New York Times story. Or, more accurately, he was outed nationally and with corroborating evidence. His predations on young women have long been the rumor of the film industry. Thus far...
by Jason Farley | Aug 29, 2017 | Arts, Blog, Culture, Feast, Fight Featured Post, Jason Farley, Laugh, Politics
Editing is an art form. My son Cedric was coming in the front door a few days ago when his sister asked, “Did you eat an ice cream sandwich?” He replied, “Malachi had two.” That was, strictly speaking, true. Malachi had eaten two ice cream sandwiches. The...
by Luke Dickson | Aug 7, 2017 | Abortion, Blog, Culture, Fight Featured Post, Politics, Science
Abortion pill reversal has been a point of serious contention lately, with some states even mandating that abortion providers inform their patients that the effects of the abortion pill on the baby may be reversible. And yet this is an issue that many pro-life people...
by admin | Jul 25, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Fight Featured Post, Politics
In the light of various Supreme Court decisions—Roe, Obergefell, and other mutants—where they have sought to sanctify things that God has declared unholy, confused and abominable, our ongoing responsibility as Christians is to think through a biblical understanding of...
by Rhett Burns | Jul 17, 2017 | Blog, Fight Featured Post, Politics, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
Last week I posted an interview with my friend Emily Buchanan of the Susan B. Anthony List, a political organization based in Washington, D.C. We talked about abortion politics and the SBA List’s efforts to end the abortion carnage. I greatly appreciate Emily taking...
by Jason Farley | Jul 2, 2017 | Arts, Culture, Feast, Fight Featured Post, Jason Farley, Politics
Everyone has to have an overarching story. A mythos that holds what they see and hear together. When I lived in California, I did evangelism on Wednesdays. I hoped to do it other days as well, but Wednesdays I did my sermon prep at the neighborhood park. I introduced...
by Toby Sumpter | Jun 13, 2017 | Abortion, Culture, Fight Featured Post, Politics
“The sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light” (Lk. 16:8). Modern conservative Christians are cowards. We are cowards by many different measurements, but one will suffice. We have almost entirely lost a culture war...
by Jason Farley | Jun 12, 2017 | Culture, Fight Featured Post, Jason Farley
I make my children practice telling jokes at dinner. If I can help it, none of my progeny will have bad comedic timing. The girl that married me, lo so many zodiacal rotations ago, hoped to be a comedian when she grew up. The same skills, it turns out, apply to...
by Brittany Martin | Jun 7, 2017 | Fight Featured Post, Science
A profound shift in scientific philosophy has occurred in the last 100 years. Significant scientific breakthroughs are manipulated into a grasp for control. The theory of evolution fundamentally changed the character of the Christian pursuit of science, casting...
by Luke Dickson | Jun 2, 2017 | Culture, Fight Featured Post, Politics
Why can’t Americans reach across the aisle like they used to? This question becomes more and more relevant every day, as we see the American political and media establishments retreat to the fringes, leaving the chasm between left and right ever wider. Americans have...
by Rhett Burns | May 25, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Fight Featured Post, Politics, Uncategorized
Venezuela is continuing its slide into disorder and mayhem. Protests against President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government have continued for almost eight weeks, and they are growing more violent each day and showing no signs of slowing down. At least fifty-five...
by Ben Zornes | May 15, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Fight Featured Post
As Millennials reject organized religion and leave the church to never return, many bluster about the implications of such trends. Some secularists take this as a signal of their victory over religion; while many Christians wring their hands and furrow their brows as...
by Luke Dickson | May 12, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Fight Featured Post, Politics
At the America’s World Voices Festival in New York last Thursday, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards set off a media frenzy, saying, “Being a woman is going to be now a pre-existing condition in this country” (Bryant 2017). Since then protests and hashtags...
by Moses Bratrud | May 4, 2017 | Fight Featured Post, Politics
During the last election cycle, even up through the first half of election night, every major media outlet predicted a comfortable victory for Hillary Clinton. Here you can see one much-referenced election calculator, timed out like a broken stopwatch, displaying the...
by Jason Farley | Apr 27, 2017 | Culture, Fight Featured Post, Jason Farley
Music is always selling more than music. It is selling a tribe. Whether it is Soul, Jazz, Punk, Classical, EDM, or Hip Hop, the music industry is packaging and selling membership in a tribe. The musicians might not think this way, but the record labels do. And, to be...
by Rhett Burns | Apr 18, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Fight Featured Post, Politics
Back when he was mayor of Istanbul, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan, once famously quipped that democracy is like a tram. You ride it until you get to your destination, then you step off. Well, after Sunday’s constitutional referendum, democracy has exited...
